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BIOFUELS

Biofuelwatch challenges the expansion of crop based and waste based biofuels for road transport and aviation. We highlight their real climate impacts, including indirect land use change, deforestation, land grabbing, and risks to food security and human rights. We call for genuine emissions reductions rather than replacing fossil fuels with other forms of burning.

BECCS AND BIOCHAR

Biofuelwatch opposes climate geoengineering approaches such as BECCS and biochar. These technologies are unproven at scale and depend on vast amounts of biomass, with serious risks to forests, ecosystems and communities. They also risk delaying real climate action by diverting attention from urgent emissions cuts.

#AXEDRAX CAMPAIGN

The Axe Drax campaign challenges large scale tree burning for electricity and the public subsidies that support it. We oppose the expansion of biomass power and plans to combine it with carbon capture. Our work focuses on protecting forests, exposing false climate claims, and ending support for destructive bioenergy.

BIOENERGY IN CALIFORNIA

In California, bioenergy and carbon removal proposals are being promoted as climate solutions. Biofuelwatch tracks these developments and highlights the risks of locking in combustion based infrastructure and expanding biomass demand. We advocate for real climate action based on cutting fossil fuel use, not replacing it with large scale bioenergy.

EUROPE: SUPPORT FOR CAMPAIGNS AGAINST BIG BIOMASS ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

We support campaigns across Europe opposing large scale biomass and related infrastructure. Our work connects groups across countries and shares evidence on climate impacts, forest loss, biodiversity harm, air pollution and community impacts. We push for policies that prioritise real renewables and reduced energy demand.

BIOMASS BASICS

Biomass Basics explains why burning wood and other biomass is not a climate solution. It covers carbon emissions, forest impacts, air pollution and the problems with sustainability claims. This section provides clear explanations and links to evidence for people new to the issue.

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Biofuels

Peer Briefing for SAF Bill Third Reading: Opening the doors to fraud

We are deeply concerned by the government's ongoing support for aviation biofuels, often erroneously known as 'sustainable aviation fuel'. The SAF Bill is now progressing through the Lords, and we want to make it clear to them that this technology is not a climate...

BECCS and Biochar

Rapport sur le projet de biochar proposé par MIRAIA à Garlin

Le biochar constitue une nouvelle menace pour les forêts françaises In English Cliquez ici pour télécharger le rapport complet un forêt près de Sauveterre-de-de-Béarn (photo: Forêts Vivantes Pyrénées) Résumé La start-up MIRAIA souhaite construire six ou sept usines de...

Biochar poses new threats to forests in France

MIRAIA's Garlin biochar project - joint report by Biofuelwatch and Forêts Vivantes Pyrénées Click here to download the report En français A wood near Sauveterre-de-Béarn (photo: Forêts Vivantes Pyrénées)  Executive Summary The start-up company MIRAIA wants to...

#AxeDrax Campaign

Forests Are Not Fuel, #AxeDrax online action

Thank you to everyone who took part in the action on the 21st April to protect forests and the climate #ForestsAreNotFuel #AxeDrax. Read article here from our volunteer Katy Brown in Liverpool Click here to read open letter to BEIS by groups in pellet supplying...

Love trees, #AxeDrax! online day of action, 22 April

Thank you to everbody who took part in this online protest and for all your wonderful photos! Please scroll down below to see the many contributions - including three videos. And look at #AxeDraxNotTrees on Twitter for the many different tweets sent on the day!...

Bioenergy in California

Fierce Campaign Stops California Wood Pellet Export Scheme

Plug pulled on timber sector proposal to site and construct the largest industrial forest product facilities built in California in decades to manufacture wood pellets for export to foreign markets. Community opposition and international reprobation likely chills...

Europe: Support for campaigns against big biomass across European countries

Berlin, runter vom Holzweg!

Berlin rechnet sich Holzverbrennung schön und liefert fadenscheinige Begründung im Genehmigungsverfahren zum Holzheizkraftwerk Reuter West Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD, NABU und Biofuelwatch, 5.2.2026 Erhebliche ökologische, klimapolitische und...

EPH’s biomass business in Europe

Click here to download the briefing German version of the report Summary The EP holding (EPH) is one of Europe’s largest investors in  climate-damaging energy, primarily in fossil fuels, but also in wood-fired power plants in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic,...

Biomass Basics

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Learn more about why burning wood and other biomass is not a climate solution. This section provides clear explanations and links to evidence for people new to the issue.

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